Most writers want to avoid Cultural Appropriation but worry that they don’t fully understand what it is or how to ensure their work does not include it. They wonder what the difference is between appropriation and exchange or between appropriation and influence. And they hope avoiding cultural appropriation doesn’t mean only writing stories about people from their same race, culture, or ethnic group. In this talk, author K. Tempest Bradford will offer concrete answers to those questions and a set of resources to help authors navigate these tricky waters.

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About K. Tempest Bradford

K. Tempest Bradford is a speculative fiction author, media critic, reviewer, and podcaster. Her fiction has appeared in award-winning magazines (Strange Horizons and Electric Velocipede) and best-selling anthologies (Diverse Energies, Federations, In the Shadow of the Towers). She has written about cultural appropriation and representation in fiction and media for NPR, io9, LitReactor, Tor.com, Chicks Dig Time Lords, and Chicks Unravel Time, and others. Tempest currently serves on the board of the Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction. Visit her website: http://tempest.fluidartist.com/ or visit Writing the Other for information about writing characters that are different from you.